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Thursday, December 14, 2017

This layout is one of my beautiful daughter from a few years back. I had heard the song "Glitter In The Air" and decided at that moment that I was going to take a photo of her blowing glitter everywhere. I adore the photo (even though it did result in a bunch of glitter in her eyes) as I think it captures my gal beautifully - caught up in her own little world dreaming about 'who knows what'.

This layout is really very simple. I could have added a lot more in the way of mixed media but decided to let the photo and the flowers do the talking. I used that gorgeous spotty paper as the basis for my colours and ended up with purple, mulberry and red as a colour scheme (not typical at all - I usually avoid purple at all costs). I then added my two flower clusters and worked from there.

In this layout I have used not one - but TWO rustic blooms! I hate to be repetitive in what I use in a layout, but let's face it....these are to die for. I love them so much - I want more. In every colour.

I then placed co-ordinating flowers around them. I have included a cabbage rose, a wax blossom and a little purple flower from a previous kit (you can't that particular flower any more but there are similar ones here.) I added the black jewelled cabochon because I thought it tied in with the rest of the black on the layout.

I also added a suede tassel, a flair button and a smattering of black faceted enamel dots. I have included a couple of pictures of these to try and show you just how pretty they are and how they reflect the light ever so perfectly.

I also tucked in some washi tape for good measure behind the photo. The purple one came from a past JAP kit. (I have decided JAP kits are the kits that keep giving and giving and giving - they seem to last for so long).

I then roughly sewed around the edges. This seems to be one of my trends right now; and I added a simple title.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Hope your lives aren't too crazy right now. I love that despite the craziness there's a certain 'vibe' in the air at this time of year ... love it!

Onto my share for today, this is on older picture I've had waiting to be scrapped for a while, I just could never seem to find the right papers to do it justice. I stumbled upon these gorgeous florals one day and knew that they'd be perfect!

I have to be honest, I really struggled with the foundation of this page and pulling the design together. Although the floral was lovely, it was very 'busy' and I didn't want it to take over. I had some stunning teal vellum in my stash and wanted to use it to layer under my photo. The see through nature of it wasn't helping frame out my photo so I ended up backing it on some plain white cardstock and hand stitching around the edge. It did the trick perfectly!

I used a journal round from a past 'Just Add Paper' kit to layer my journalling on and then added some paper flowers, resin bow and an enamel heart. The cardstock leaves were cut on my cameo but you can find very similar paper leaves in the creative cuts section. I coloured these up with some Colour Blast Shimmer Cubes and they look amazing. The teal flower was originally white but I coloured these also as I couldn't find anything in my stash that was the right shade.

Another cluster with some repeated elements, I also added a resin flower, flair and a journal ticket cut it half. The other piece was used in my other cluster.

Last bonus... just as a bit of a brag... my darling sweet daughter made these cute little books for all her friends this year. Each book she topped with a D-lish embellie. So glad she has my creative gene!

I hope you have time to do a little bit of creative gift giving this year! It takes time, but sometimes that is better than any money you could spend!

Friday, December 8, 2017

Hi Everyone, It's Michelle back here today with a closer look at my Inspiration Board layout. This was definitely a challenge and one that I had to re-do multiple times as it just didn't look quite right. The board we've shared this month was super inspiring and I just couldn't work out the right mix of elements until I came up with this creation...

This child of mine is a total crack up! Loves to dress up in such wonderful outfits, more recently being her mermaid costume with a sparkly wig and McHappy Day socks HAHA The photo itself was the perfect combination of colours to compliment the colour palette within the board, but proved to be a real tricky one to create around.

Heres another look at the board

I took my main inspiration from the sketch which I've rotated to the left, the bunches of flowers and the circular elements in the middle right hand side. I did try to attempt loads of circles with this layout rather than the strips of pattern papers, but man oh man was it a bad combination HAHA

Heres some close ups

Loving these Canvas pick n place bows, they've got a nice sturdy texture to them with the slightest hint of shimmery sparkle to them, perfect for layering into clusters. I've punched circles from an Amy Tangerine collection to use around the layout, and added machine stitching for added texture. Also in this cluster is a Little Birdie beaded micro petal flower and resin glitter dot